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As if they needed more stress, organizations are facing evolving and increasingly stringent compliance regulations from the Payment Card Industry, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and others. Here are a few security compliance products that can make the audit process less excruciating.

Here are 10 of the distributor's hottest new offerings winning over solution providers.

New smartphones from Sony, Motorola and the first-ever Twitter-only mobile device -- the TwitterPeek -- headline a busy week for handset makers as the holiday shopping season heats up.

SOFTWARE

Color Microsoft solution providers unimpressed with the limited details Google provided this week on its forthcoming Linux-based Chrome OS.

[06:08 PM, November 20, 2009]

IBM's Rich Michos rallied solution providers at this week's XChange Tech Innovators conference to join in the push to build a smarter planet.

[04:06 PM, November 20, 2009]

At Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer found himself answering the same questions that he's been fielding for several years, and his answers weren't much different than in the past.

[02:30 PM, November 20, 2009]

Zlago offers hosted desktop services for small businesses, complete with e-mail, security and storage, which VARs can private-label to their customers.

[02:30 PM, November 20, 2009]

Company sets alliances with CA and BMC Software that expand the Force.com cloud computing ecosystem.

[11:03 AM, November 20, 2009]

Cloud Engines updates the Pogoplug, which connects your USB drive to the Internet to access and share your files with anyone or a select set of users from anywhere, according to the company.

[10:41 AM, November 20, 2009]

A new video making the rounds shows Microsoft employees dancing in organized fashion at one of the company's newly opened retail stores. Is this just another ham-fisted guerilla marketing campaign from Microsoft?

[07:58 PM, November 19, 2009]

Microsoft spent much of this week sharing its vision of the cloud computing future with developers, but CEO Steve Ballmer wants people to know that Windows 7 sales are chugging along at a record pace.

[06:16 PM, November 19, 2009]

CIO panelists at Interop New York tell cloud providers like Microsoft, Amazon, Joyent and Google that security is still a big risk for cloud computing.

[04:44 PM, November 19, 2009]

Google's YouTube offers automatic video captioning.

[04:41 PM, November 19, 2009]

Google is providing more detail around its plans for Chrome OS, much of which centers on addressing the complexity that has long plagued users of a certain widely-used proprietary operating system.

[03:35 PM, November 19, 2009]

Sony says it can't guarantee Daily Edition shipments before Christmas.

[10:04 AM, November 19, 2009]

Xobni Wrings Time Savings Out Of Outlook

Xobni fills the gaps in Microsoft Outlook with more efficient organization of contact information, building profiles that allow users to quickly find the people with whom they're trying to connect.